Other-Fiction The Serpent and the Rainbow

There are zombies in Hati, people who had died and burried, only to reappear later in a semi-catatonic state. Wade Davis tells a fantastic story about how he penetrated the voudun cult and learned how datura and tetrododoxin were used to poison a person into a death like state and then kept under the spell of the sorcerer. It's a wild tale for sure, but it's not well supported. Davis had little empirical evidence of his claims, and on numerous occasions talks about how his sources are pathological liars.

Wade Davis comes off in an almost Indiana Jones like fashion, staring down voodoo priests, being cursed to die on several occasions, be threatened with more real weapons more then once, drinking potions after he's been told they were poisons, seducing an exotic local and eventually fucking her brains out at a public ritual with her while she's possessed. I mean this guy is fricken unreal.

Still, it's a great read and a titillating look at a strange culture, just not one to be taken as fact.